Statistics

[Andrew MacLean]

Maybe that's why they pay big bucks for expertise like yours.

Andrew

[GarethB]

If only the big bucks made their way to my pay packet

[Andrew MacLean]

That is a feeling that I do recognize.

A

[Matthew_]

Andrew,
I am with you on the reference books. I actually found the internet fairly limited for MBA research. I should qualify that, the www is limited. There is no doubt that you log on to market research sites or business data bases or whatever your interest is, but these cost money to subscribe to and are exclusive. Also e-mail and that makes the handling of assignments very easy but the www for information? Very limited - there are major issues with providence, credibility etc what you normally get is 300000000 sites of junk! Even when you get some thing interesting, how can be sure it is from a decent source?
That said, I subscribe to economist.com (students rates) -Brilliant, objective journalism (very rare in this country!)
I am not old fashioned, I even keep my bible on my mobile device along with othe e-books and (of course) the economist but for reference - it has to be a book!
Without the internet we wouldn't be able to googlewhack though! My latest - de-structuralised elasmobranch.

[John Smith]

Well done on the Googlewhack. Does it count though if you have to use foreign (American) spelling?

I only found it with "de-structuralized elasmobranch". Still, it won't be one for long... not now it's posted here!

Edit: it doesn't count. That page is simply a list of words. Dave Gorman tells us that's cheating. Shame on you

[Matthew_]

I didn't know it could't be a list of words...now I am sad, that was my only entertainment, while typing up my project at silly o'clock in the morning!

[Andrew MacLean]

I know what an elasmobranch is:

a cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates. Compare with selachian .

Subclass Elasmobranchii, class Chondrichthyes.ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from modern Latin Elasmobranchii (plural), from Greek elasmos ‘beaten metal’ + brankhia ‘gills.’

It was an elasmobranch that killed the Australian naturalist last week.

I guess that to be destructuralized the fish would need to be rotten. A rather clever diver's joke!


Andrew

ps I did toy with the idea that the destructuralization may have been due to the fish being dismembered and presented on a fishmonger's slab, but I dismissed this notion because destructuralization by decomposition was a far funnier prosepct and less prosaic than a fishmonger weilding a filleting knife.

[GarethB]

I am so glad at work we have specialised people to search the net for us.

Just tell them the subject matter and they have to sort the wheat from the chaff.

I then get e-mailed a load of documents which unfortunatly need printing so I can read them comfortabley.

[Matthew_]

Elasmobranchs are good fishes to eat because they don't have bones eg skate. I am a great fan of dogfish, tastes great and quite common down south, called huss, bull huss, rock or rock salmon. The structrualized but was just an uncommon and non aquatic word to get the number of hits down, I started with caramelised elasmobranch but got loads! Anyway its not a pucker googlewhack unfortunately! There has to a KC releated one like keratonic mososaur or something like that?
Any way thought you all might like to know, I sent my MBA project off to the printers today, ending 3 years of study. Hooraaaah!!!!!!!!!!What a weight off, it has been a big committment, and the KC did not exactly help either! Now I go and read a novel for fun instead of a text book. I think I might start with that dubious Dan Brown one that caused so much fuss - I know I am going to be disappointed but it shouldn't take long!!!!

[GarethB]

You may have finished your MBA, but my student has just completed her MSc, so who gets to read the report as well as her tutor?

Me and I get the odd Phd project to go through.

I can tell you when you have KC reading and marking these things can be as tough as studying for these. Just I do not get three years to go through all the information!